Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan

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THE MOST POPULAR WORDPRESS FIREWALL & SECURITY SCANNER

Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.

WORDPRESS FIREWALL

Web Application Firewall identifies and blocks malicious traffic. Built and maintained by a large team focused 100% on WordPress security.

The Wordfence Live Traffic view shows you real-time activity on your site including bot traffic and exploit attempts.

Take login security to the next level with Two-Factor Authentication.

Logging in is easy with Wordfence 2FA.

Inštalácia

Secure your website using the following steps to install Wordfence:

Install Wordfence automatically or by uploading the ZIP file.

Activate the Wordfence through the ‚Plugins‘ menu in WordPress. Wordfence is now activated.

Go to the scan menu and start your first scan. Scheduled scanning will also be enabled.

Once your first scan has completed, a list of threats will appear. Go through them one by one to secure your site.

Visit the Wordfence options page to enter your email address so that you can receive email security alerts.

Optionally, change your security level or adjust the advanced options to set individual scanning and protection options for your site.

Click the „Live Traffic“ menu option to watch your site activity in real-time. Situational awareness is an important part of website security.

To install the Wordfence on WordPress Multi-Site installations:

Install Wordfence via the plugin directory or by uploading the ZIP file.

Network Activate Wordfence. This step is important because until you network activate it, your sites will see the plugin option on their plugins menu. Once activated that option disappears.

Now that Wordfence is network activated it will appear on your Network Admin menu. Wordfence will not appear on any individual site’s menu.

Go to the „Scan“ menu and start your first scan.

Wordfence will do a scan of all files in your WordPress installation including those in the blogs.dir directory of your individual sites.

Live Traffic will appear for ALL sites in your network. If you have a heavily trafficked system you may want to disable live traffic which will stop logging to the DB.

Firewall rules and login rules apply to the WHOLE system. So if you fail a login on site1.example.com and site2.example.com it counts as 2 failures. Crawler traffic is counted between blogs, so if you hit three sites in the network, all the hits are totalled and that counts as the rate you’re accessing the system.

Časté otázky

The WordPress security plugin provides the best protection available for your website. Powered by the constantly updated Threat Defense Feed, Wordfence Firewall stops you from getting hacked. Wordfence Scan leverages the same proprietary feed, alerting you quickly about security issues or if your site is compromised. The Live Traffic view gives you real-time visibility into traffic and hack attempts on your website. A deep set of additional tools round out the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.

What features does Wordfence Premium enable?

We offer a Premium API key that gives you real-time updates to the Threat Defense Feed which includes a real-time IP blacklist, firewall rules, and malware signatures. Premium support, country blocking, more frequent scans, and spam and spamvertising checks are also included. Click here to sign-up for Wordfence Premium now or simply install Wordfence free and start protecting your website.

How does the Wordfence WordPress Firewall protect websites?

Web Application Firewall stops you from getting hacked by identifying malicious traffic, blocking attackers before they can access your website.

Threat Defense Feed automatically updates firewall rules that protect you from the latest threats. Premium members receive the real-time version.

Continuously scans for malware and phishing URL’s including all URLs on the Google Safe Browsing List in all your comments, posts and files that are security threats.

Scans for heuristics of backdoors, trojans, suspicious code and other security issues.

Ktoré zabezpečovacie funkcie monitoringu Wordfence obsahuje?

See all your traffic in real-time, including robots, humans, 404 errors, logins and logouts and who is consuming most of your content. Enhances your situational awareness of which security threats your site is facing.

A real-time view of all traffic including automated bots that often constitute security threats that Javascript analytics packages never show you.

Monitors disk space which is related to security because many DDoS attacks attempt to consume all disk space to create denial of service.

Ktoré funkcie zabezpečenia prihlásenia obsahuje

See all your traffic in real-time, including robots, humans, 404 errors, logins and logouts and who is consuming most of your content. Enhances your situational awareness of which security threats your site is facing.

A real-time view of all traffic including automated bots that often constitute security threats that Javascript analytics packages never show you.

Monitors disk space which is related to security because many DDoS attacks attempt to consume all disk space to create denial of service.

How will I be alerted if my site has a security problem?

Wordfence sends security alerts via email. Once you install Wordfence, you will configure a list of email addresses where security alerts will be sent. When you receive a security alert, make sure you deal with it promptly to ensure your site stays secure.

Do I need a security plugin like Wordfence if I’m using a cloud based firewall (WAF)?

Wordfence provides true endpoint security for your WordPress website. Unlike cloud based firewalls, Wordfence executes within the WordPress environment, giving it knowledge like whether the user is signed in, their identity and what access level they have. Wordfence uses the user’s access level in more than 80% of the firewall rules it uses to protect WordPress websites. Learn more about the Cloud WAF identity problem here. Additionally, cloud based firewalls can be bypassed, leaving your site exposed to attackers. Because Wordfence is an integral part of the endpoint (your WordPress website), it can’t be bypassed. Learn more about the Cloud WAF bypass problem here. To fully protect the investment you’ve made in your website you need to employ a defense in depth approach to security. Wordfence takes this approach.

Aké funkcie blokovania obsahuje Wordfence?

Real-time blocking of known attackers. If another site using Wordfence is attacked and blocks the attacker, your site is automatically protected.

Premium users can also block countries and schedule scans for specific times and a higher frequency.

What differentiates Wordfence from other WordPress Security plugins?

Wordfence Security provides a WordPress Firewall developed specifically for WordPress and blocks attackers looking for vulnerabilities on your site. The Firewall is powered by our Threat Defense Feed which is continually updated as new threats emerge. Premium customers receive updates in real-time.

Wordfence verifies your website source code integrity against the official WordPress repository and shows you the changes.

Wordfence scans check all your files, comments and posts for URLs in Google’s Safe Browsing list. We are the only plugin to offer this very important security enhancement.

Wordfence scans do not consume large amounts of your bandwidth because all security scans happen on your web server which makes them very fast.

Wordfence fully supports WordPress Multi-Site which means you can security scan every blog in your Multi-Site installation with one click.

Wordfence includes Two-Factor authentication, the most secure way to stop brute force attackers in their tracks.

Wordfence fully supports IPv6 including giving you the ability to look up the location of IPv6 addresses, block IPv6 ranges, detect IPv6 country and do a whois lookup on IPv6 addresses and more.

Will Wordfence slow down my website?

No. Wordfence Security is extremely fast and uses techniques like caching its own configuration data to avoid database lookups and blocking malicious attacks that would slow down your site.

What if my site has already been hacked?

Wordfence Security is able to repair core files, themes and plugins on sites where security is already compromised. You can follow this guide on how to clean a hacked website using Wordfence. However, please note that site security cannot be assured unless you do a full reinstall if your site has been hacked. We recommend you only use Wordfence Security to get your site into a running state in order to recover the data you need to do a full reinstall. If you need help repairing a hacked site, we offer an affordable, high-quality site cleaning service that includes a Premium key for a year.

Does Wordfence Security support IPv6?

Yes. We fully support IPv6 with all security functions including country blocking, range blocking, city lookup, whois lookup and all other security functions. If you are not running IPv6, Wordfence will work great on your site too. We are fully compatible with both IPv4 and IPv6 whether you run both or only one addressing scheme.

Does Wordfence Security support Multi-Site installations?

Yes. WordPress Multi-Site is fully supported. Using Wordfence you can scan every blog in your network for malware with one click. If one of your customers posts a page or post with a known malware URL that threatens your whole domain with being blacklisted by Google, we will alert you in the next scan.

What support options are available for Wordfence users?

Providing excellent customer service is very important to us. We offer help to all our customers whether you are using the Premium or free version of Wordfence. For help with the free version, you can post in our forum where we have dedicated staff responding to questions. If you need faster or more in-depth help, Premium customers can submit a support ticket to our Premium support team.

Where can I learn more about WordPress security?

Designed for every skill level, The WordPress Security Learning Center is dedicated to deepening users’ understanding of security best practices by providing free access to entry-level articles, in-depth articles, videos, industry survey results, graphics and more.

Had a few problems implementing the new MFA on a couple of sites. First class support from Wordfence to resolve: customer error logging set up and after a couple more attempts it worked perfectly.
Highly impressive.

7.1.1 – March 20, 2018

Improvement: Added the ability to sort the blocks table.

Improvement: Added short-term caching of breach check results.

Improvement: The check for passwords leaked in breaches now allows a login if the user has previously logged in from the same IP successfully and displays an admin notice suggesting changing the password.

Improvement: Switched the bundled select2 library to use to prefixed version to work around other plugins including older versions on our pages.

Improvement: The scan page now displays when beta signatures are enabled since they can produce false positives.

Improvement: Improved positioning of the „Wordfence is Working“ message.

Improvement: Added a character limit to the reason on blocks and forced wrapping to avoid the layout stretching too much.

Fix: Fixed an issue with some table prefixing where multisite installations with rare configurations could result in unknown table warnings.

Fix: Removed an older behavior with live traffic buttons that could allow them to open in a new tab and show nothing.

6.3.12 – June 28, 2017

Improvement: Added rel=“noopener noreferrer“ to all external links from the plugin for better interoperability with other scanners.

Improvement: Added support to the WAF for validating URLs for future use in rules.

Fix: Time formatting will now correctly handle :30 and :45 time zone offsets.

Fix: Hosts using mod_lsapi will now be detected as Litespeed for WAF optimization.

Fix: Added an option to allow automatic updates to function on Litespeed servers that have the global noabort set rather than site-local.

Fix: Fixed a PHP notice that could occur when running a scan immediately after removing a plugin.

6.3.11 – June 15, 2017

Improvement: The scan will alert for plugins that have not been updated in 2+ years or have been removed from the wordpress.org directory. It will also indicate if there is a known vulnerability.

Improvement: Added a self-check to the scan to detect if it has stalled.

Improvement: If WordPress auto-updates while a scan is running, the scan will self-abort and reschedule itself to try again later.

Improvement: IP-based filtering in Live Traffic can now use wildcards.

Improvement: Updated the bundled GeoIP database.

Improvement: Added an anti-crawler feature to the lockout page to avoid crawlers erroneously following the unlock link.

Improvement: The live traffic „Group By“ options now dynamically show the results in a more useful format depending on the option selected.

Improvement: Improved the unknown core files check to include all extra files in core locations regardless of whether or not the „Scan images, binary, and other files as if they were executable“ option is on.